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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2020 Apr 27;19(6):2179–2193. doi: 10.1007/s10237-020-01332-5

Table 1. COVID-19 outbreak dynamics in China.

Latent period A, contact period B, infectious period C, basic reproduction number R0 = C/B, fraction of initial latent population ρ = E0/I0 and fraction of affected population η = N*/N.

parameter mean ± std interpretation
A [days] 2.56 ± 0.72 latent period
B [days] 1.47 ± 0.32 contact period
C [days] 17.82 ± 2.95 infectious period
R0 [-] 12.58 ± 3.17 basic reproduction no
ρ [-] 3.19 ± 5.44 initl latent population
η [-] 5.19·10−5 ±2.23·10−4 affected population